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Premium Member Something Borrowed
...Tick-tock ya can’t rewind Time doesn’t stop or fall behind Clock hands cut like a sharpened knife Time doesn’t lose it runs your life Born with a cry blink then you're grown Chasing years you’......

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Categories: sharpened, time,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Grimm's Version of Peter Pan's Perversions
...Most of have heard or read the Adventures of Peter Pan A boy who never grew up and lived in Never Never Land The rewritten story goes that Tinkerbell is in love with Pete but in the original shado......

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Categories: sharpened, abuse, drug,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Threads of the Nether
... Corrosion seeps into a floundering mind, Disembodied memories unbind. Set free, lacerating into a trembling spine, Threads of a soul spill, taunting it’ll never be fine. Abandon the white......

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Categories: sharpened, angst, dark, gothic, horror,
Form: Rhyme
Poe Ravenscroft Marmosett The Dark Goddess
...(A lone voice whispers) Like a lone argus-eyed oblique tattered caliginous silhouette Moving extremely cautiously in the severe, deadly silence The Mistress of the Voices of the Dead Poe ......

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Categories: sharpened, deep, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Taunted by Trees and Leaves
... Why to you have sides, front, back, left and right besides, betides? I'm offside, on no one's side. Why regret and hide the gnarls, scars and wrinkles on your hides? Why be ashamed of the......

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Categories: sharpened, tree,
Form: Free verse



Rough Life
...We live — but not on level ground, We are sunlight clinging to the edge of a crumbling wall. I remembered Grandmother’s voice, She warned me once: “Boy, beware the fall.” We leap — and soon en......

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Categories: sharpened, faith, god, irony, loneliness,
Form: Masnavi
Premium Member Emotional Shrapnel
...Lurid looks have been thrown at me Deadly daggers sent to pierce my heart Why do some insist on acting beastly waging war in attempts to tear me apart? How long can I go on pretending I'm not in......

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Categories: sharpened, feelings,
Form: Rhyme
WHAT I SEEK
...I have my quill sharpened My scrolls ready once again I’m running this long writing race Not to win, but to find my place I seek to grow in every line To learn & to stumble & to refine To sha......

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Categories: sharpened, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Rhyme
The Diary Letter to Beatrice
...The Diary Letter to Beatrice (A lone voice whispers, as the right hand, takes careful notes) In the deepest of silence I always walk Deep in thoughts, into my own created Maelstrom of D......

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Categories: sharpened, mythology,
Form: Rhyme
The Prismatic Self
...I write because silence was a tyrant with a velvet muzzle. Because childhood was a soundproof cage, and I was taught to swallow every scream like communion. “Poetry is not therapy,” the judge......

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Categories: sharpened, deep,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Keyboard Bullies
...What's worse than a malicious master of manipulation? Two who join together to play Pin the Tail on their prey Continuously and clamorously... asses love to bray Cruelty is not always physical ......

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Categories: sharpened, bullying,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member cheekbones
...her sharpened cheekbone cutting the blustering wind majestically......

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Categories: sharpened, wind,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member I am
...“As God’s spark ensouling organic form, I am that presence which cannot be named, felt within as a magnetic bliss storm, divine pulsation that cannot be tamed, gentled by His touch, w......

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Categories: sharpened, faith,
Form: Free verse
Past Tense
...There’s a small committee in my brain, chaired by Regret and Vice-Chair Shame. They meet on Tuesdays, drink Earl Grey, and critique my past like a tragic play. There’s Memory #12 in a velvet ve......

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Categories: sharpened, memory,
Form: Personification
Premium Member One day you will look back at this version of yourself
...One day you will look back at this version of yourself, the one who remained gentle even when life sharpened at the edges, the one who kept showing up even when it seemed impossible to try anymore,......

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Categories: sharpened, fantasy,
Form: Free verse

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